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Posts tagged 'Graphic design'

Photoshop turns 25

In the decades since it was first released, Thomas Knoll’s digital darkroom has become a brand, a verb and a defining symbol of our image-led

Design

Keiichi Matsuda: Total digital overload

The London-based designer’s films offer a glimpse into a nightmarish sci-fi future in which every surface, appliance and inch of peripheral vision fizzes with data

Design

Countryside Code

The rural rulebook is rarely seen these days. But with the right rebrand, it might even add to our enjoyment of nature, says Design Project

Opinion

Margaret Calvert: Last year’s Icon of the Year

At last year’s Icon Awards, Margaret Calvert was named Icon of the Year. In the lead-up to the 2014 awards this week, we revisit this

Design

Metahaven: Last year’s Design Studio of the Year

This article first appeared in our January 2014 issue, which included all the winners of last year’s Icon Awards. Read about the nominees for this

Design

Manuals 1: Design & Identity Guidelines

The bilingual manual for Expo 67 in Montreal The way that corporations styled themselves in the 1960s and 70s was ruled by big books full of

Opinion

Henryk Tomaszewski

Citizen Kane, 1948 (images: Courtesy of Filipa Pągowskieg) Henryk Tomaszewski’s posters make him one of the pre eminent figures of post-war graphic design, says Agata

Opinion

Oyster Card

Most people living or working in and around London have an Oyster card. We chose to redesign this electronic ticket for the capital’s transport network

Opinion

Where You Are

Visual Editions, the graphically-inclined publishers (Icon 122) commissioned 16 writers and artists to sketch out in words or pictures their ideas for a map close

Opinion

Margaret Calvert, 2013 Icon of the Year: “Being a graphic designer is like being a brain surgeon”

Using the European standard shapes for warnings, Calvert designed the pictorial instructions for road users, referencing what was familiar to her – a cow for

Design

Editor's choice

ICON Picks: 10 best new-season design and lifestyle launches

Lexus brings Discover Together to Milan with a focus on space

ODD Voices by ICON takes Milan Design Week

Snøhetta and Annabelle Schneider turn USM’s Modular System into pavilion

Isola Design Festival presents TEN: The Evolving Now

ICON 219 : Spring/Summer 2026

SANAA connects museum and library in new Taichung complex

How a Singapore apartment was rebuilt around a discontinued brick

Colouring The Future




Architects

Snøhetta and Annabelle Schneider turn USM’s Modular System into pavilion

SANAA connects museum and library in new Taichung complex

How a Singapore apartment was rebuilt around a discontinued brick

Travel architecture gets a vivid rethink in Dream in Progress

Practice on Earth transforms Ningbo farmland with inflatable architecture

YOD Group designs contemporary Ukrainian mazanka guesthouses

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Luca A. Caizzi explores Milan through metal surfaces in new book

LANZA atelier uses curving brick design for Serpentine Pavilion 2026

Runda by NIKJOO x Flawk

This new build in North London features a playful exterior by architecture practice NIKJOO


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ICON Picks: 10 best new-season design and lifestyle launches

Lexus brings Discover Together to Milan with a focus on space

ODD Voices by ICON takes Milan Design Week

Isola Design Festival presents TEN: The Evolving Now

Kasthall and Barber Osgerby debut Atlas and Bonbon rug collections for Milan Design Week

ICON Awards 2026: Recognising influential architecture, design, and culture

How designers turn raw materials into objects at Aram’s Mould exhibition

Ele Harper-Colman wins the CDW Award at New Designers 2025

Cape Town Furniture Week celebrates contemporary craft for its fourth edition



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ICON Picks: 10 best new-season design and lifestyle launches

Lexus brings Discover Together to Milan with a focus on space

ODD Voices by ICON takes Milan Design Week

Snøhetta and Annabelle Schneider turn USM’s Modular System into pavilion

Isola Design Festival presents TEN: The Evolving Now

ICON 219 : Spring/Summer 2026

SANAA connects museum and library in new Taichung complex

How a Singapore apartment was rebuilt around a discontinued brick

Colouring The Future